Portugal

A man passes in front of Rossio train station in 2014 (when King Sebastian still stood watch).

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Selfie With Statue In Portugal Doesn't End Well

6:09pm May 13, 2016

by Dana Farrington

A man tried to climb up on a statue at Lisbon's Rossio train station for a picture, causing the figure of King Sebastian to fall and shatter. The national monument was more than 120 years old.

Portuguese architect Margarida Castro (right) provides a tour of Porto in 2014. She is one of three unemployed architects who set up Worst Tours to show visitors the poverty in the city, which has been hard hit by the country's weak economy in recent yea

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Portugal Beckons Tourists With Sun, History And ... Slums

7:45am March 10, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

Forget the cathedrals and wine houses that have made Porto, Portugal, famous. A new guided tour takes visitors to back alleys and boarded-up businesses — the effects of Europe's economic crisis.

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A woman walks Wednesday past a monument to the Jews in Lisbon believed to have been killed in a pogrom in 1506. Portugal is following Spain and granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago.

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Portugal To Offer Citizenship To Descendants Of Expelled Jews

6:21pm January 29, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

Portugal's Jews were expelled, burned at the stake or forcibly converted to Christianity 500 years ago. The government says it wants to right a wrong. Spain approved a similar law last year.